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Overcoming challenges in measuring early childhood development across cultures

These challenges in measuring early childhood development are exacerbated when making comparisons across cultures

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Acute Tryptophan Depletion Moja-De: A Method to Study Central Nervous Serotonin Function in Children and Adolescents

Serotonin (5-HT) is widely implicated as a key neurotransmitter relevant to a range of psychiatric disorders and psychological processes. The role of central nervous 5-HT function underlying these processes can be examined through serotonergic challenge methodologies.

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Reading and numeracy attainment of children reported to child protection services: A population record linkage study controlling for other adversities

A cross-agency response to supporting educational attainment for all children reported to child protection services is required

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Gender gaps in cognitive and social-emotional skills in early primary grades: Evidence from rural Indonesia

This paper examines the magnitude and source of gender gaps in cognitive and social-emotional skills in early primary grades in rural Indonesia. Relative to boys, girls score more than 0.17 SD higher in tests of language and mathematics (cognitive skills) and between 0.18 and 0.27 SD higher in measures of social competence and emotional maturity (social-emotional skills).

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Investing in school readiness: A comparison of different early childhood education pathways in rural Indonesia

This paper documents that children in rural Indonesia participate in a great variety of early childhood education pathways

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Implementing and Evaluating Interventions to Improve School Readiness and Early Literacy

The implementation of the Pacific early age readiness and learning program has generated significant data, evidence, operational experience, and knowledge

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A population health approach in education to support children's early development: A Critical Interpretive Synthesis

The results from this review indicate that it would indeed be plausible to adapt the population health approach to sites and schools

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Validity of the Middle Years Development Instrument for Population Monitoring of Student Wellbeing in Australian School Children

This paper reports on a five-year project to measure student wellbeing across an education system using the Middle Years Development Instrument

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Assessing Diversity in Early Childhood Development in the East Asia-Pacific

In all six countries, child development scores increased with age and urban children consistently performed better than rural children